Any Dubuquers?

Mark,

Welcome to NaNo. This is my fifth year writing, and I hope will be my fourth consecutive win.

I don't know what's going on in the DBQ area, but we've got a pretty hopping crowd up the road in Platteville. If you don't mind crossing the state line, you're welcome to come hang with us.

Wendy

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2004 - "Ordinary Man" (32k)
2005 - Had a baby girl, 11/29
2006 - "To Make Believe" (Winner)
2007 - "Faceless" (Winner)
2008 - "In Decision" (Winner)

Hi Wendy, and thanks for the welcome. I'll keep in mind coming up to Platteville, I'm up there on occasion.

*waves* Yep, here in Dubuque. This is my sixth year participating. Good luck to everyone!

Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter, try again, fail again. Fail better. --Samuel Beckett

It's never too late to be who you might have been. -- George Elliot

Welcome, Mark. I'm a Dubuquer, too. Good luck with your novel! :)

Hi Mark this is my first year as well. Several of my friends and I are going to take a stab at it together. Most of us actually roleplay with the Tri-State Roleplayers Guild playing D&D. We have taken a stab at writing our own adventures so now we are going to try and twist it into something novelish. We range in age from 20 something to almost 40. I can't wait to see what our vivid imaginations churn out. Feel free to add me to your buddy list if you need some friendly encouragement. Good Luck!

Roleplay is a great way to get started on novels. Two of my successful NaNo years rose from lots and lots of roleplay written down. Then again, I'm more of a LARP-er than anything else, because papers always get in between myself and my character development, but some people don't have that problem. ;3

I'm here.

My name is Isaac, and I will be doing the NaNoWriMo for the first time, as well. Nearly everyone in my Wednesday night DnD group is participating, all for the first time.

So I would guess that D&D will be on hold for the month of November? I couldn't imagine trying to play D&D (when I played we played weekly) and writing a 50,000 word novel!

No, Meteormoe is my DM. And the way I see it, it is only around 1700 words per night. I can do that pretty easily.

I'm a Dubuquer! But I don't play euchre.

This will be my second try. A fail 2 years ago, and last Nov. I produced a baby instead of a novel.

We gonna try to do a get together? There's no Miguels anymore, so where would we have it?

"There's an old folk saying that goes: Whenever you delete a sentence in your NaNoWriMo novel, a NaNoWriMo angel loses its wings and plummets, screaming, to the ground.

Where it will likely require medical attention. "

Hi, Mark. I'm Dan and I'm a Dubuquer. I joined last year but this is my first year actually doing anything. This month will be hell since in addition to writing a novel, I'm a full time student at Clarke and I work full time. So if I don't win, I'll have an excuse, but if I do win, I will lay claim to the crown of world's most awesome person.

I would really like to be world's most awesome person.

This is my fourth year trying, and hopefully my second win. I have a wonderful inspiration in the form of a proof copy from winning two years ago, but I also have a wonderful distraction in the form of my baby who was born last year (hence why I didn't participate last year).

Last year I took some roleplaying characters and just ran away with them (like I had tried the previous two times). This year, I'm trying something new (probably since my face to face rpg group has kind of disbanded and I do all my roleplaying online now). We'll see if it works!

Wow, there are lots of folks from Dubuque doin this! More than I thought would be. It would be awesome to get together...and hopefully my work schedule will flesh out within the next couple of days so I can share when Im available.

Should we try to do a write-in around midpoint?
The evening of Monday the 16th at either a coffee shop or the library would work for me.

"There's an old folk saying that goes: Whenever you delete a sentence in your NaNoWriMo novel, a NaNoWriMo angel loses its wings and plummets, screaming, to the ground.

Where it will likely require medical attention. "

I think that's a good idea. I want to go to a write-in, but don't want to travel to do it. I keep thinking of the number of words I could write were I not driving back and forth from IC or CF.

I like the coffee shop idea. I like Jitterz but it's a bit small. Though I don't think we'll need much room. One Mean Bean has more room.

I'm up for anything, really.

Are all you Dubuquers still writing?

I'm still interested in a meet-up/write-in if anyone wants to set a date.

"There's an old folk saying that goes: Whenever you delete a sentence in your NaNoWriMo novel, a NaNoWriMo angel loses its wings and plummets, screaming, to the ground.

Where it will likely require medical attention. "

Hey, guys. I'm the ML for Wisconsin: Elsewhere and I know that Dubuque is only half an hour away from where I'm located, so I thought I might extend this invitation to you:

http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3283359#comment-4356023

I can come to Dubuque to bring a few people to the party if there's interest. :)

2009: As of yet, untitled [24,096/50,000]

Hey guys i'm Michael i'm from dyersville which is about 20 min. away from dubuque. I go to school at Beckman High school and this is my first year!